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Definition of housekeeping in English:

housekeeping

noun

‘I am able to stay at home while both my parents work; I help them with housekeeping and some cooking.’

‘Margrith has trained young, aspiring hospital and old age home managers to be, in housekeeping, specializing in cooking.’

‘She was in her 90th year but insisted on doing her own baking and housekeeping.’

‘As well as having to cater for more than 100 people each day, she had to organise cleaning and housekeeping for residents, manage a licensed bar, look after hospitality services and produce menus in Braille.’

‘Helene employed household help, but Cullman's German housewives prided themselves on their industriousness and housekeeping without servants.’

‘While staying at Maitri, the Indian station, she was obliged to perform all duties, including cooking, clearing snow, burning garbage and housekeeping.’

‘Although this column, like its predecessors, devoted some space to fashion tips and general good housekeeping, it did begin to bring discussions of women's role in Ireland out of the purely domestic sphere.’

‘And if you have a housekeeper, you know once your housekeeper comes, you're probably not inclined to do heavy cleaning, maybe light housekeeping.’

‘I've met many more British women who really understand the details of housekeeping.’

‘Still, if it wasn't for the team, we would only be pestering our partners or getting on with the decorating and housekeeping!’

‘He is in control of the money coming into the household and the amount that is available for housekeeping, she has to manage the daily expenditure.’

‘She wants around 10,000 baht every month and honestly I am having trouble saving this amount out of the housekeeping money each month.’

‘Twelve-year-old Robert's mum went off on holiday leaving the housekeeping with him and his younger siblings.’

‘What the examiners have done here is to take three issues of property rights, i.e. common funds, gifts, housekeeping allowances, and weave a separate story around each.’

‘Conversely joint-pool couples are most likely to agree that responsibility for breadwinning and housework should be shared and those adopting a housekeeping allowance system are least likely to agree.’

‘What about the stress it causes to his partner and family when he has gambled away the housekeeping money!’

‘Plastic bars will come down to split the house in two, with those in the rich part given £400 housekeeping money and access to better living conditions.’

‘By referring to an allowance to cover the expenses of the home, it appears to cover only money handed over to a wife for weekly housekeeping.’

‘He handed over the housekeeping every Friday night and kept some back to run his struggling, one-man business.’

‘He pays all the bills except the housekeeping, as he has a good salary.’

‘These publications made the mother of three float through her daily chores, burn the dinner, overcook the peas, but more important, enabled her to supplement the housekeeping.’

‘My Thai wife has started being very secretive about the housekeeping money.’

‘The woman had made no direct payments towards the cost of acquisition, but had paid for furnishings, bought a car and contributed to housekeeping expenses.’

‘The father in the family as a rule made most of the decisions about expenditure, although a lot of women were given a housekeeping allowance and allowed to decide how that would be budgeted.’

‘Rather insultingly he left housekeeping money for me and my sister - with the strict instruction that I wasn't allowed anywhere near it.’

‘Relations between the two are frosty, because George makes a bit too free with the housekeeping money, but they always end up in bed together.’

‘The policy covers 80 per cent of costs such as childcare, housekeeping, cooking, ironing and transport after the first 30 days.’

‘This horse will start at prohibitive odds for the race and though he should win without too much fuss he is not one to risk the housekeeping on.’

‘Lot of people would say to me oh, I'm saving up my little extra housekeeping money just to come and spend here because there is no sales tax.’

1.2US A department within a hotel or other residential facility that oversees the cleaning of rooms and the provision of necessities such as towels and glassware.

‘you'll never have to nag housekeeping for a set of dry towels’

‘In any case, during the two days we occupied this room, housekeeping apparently never noticed the problem, either.’